BucharestComrade Nicolae Ceausescu,General Secretary of the Communist Party ofRumania and President of the Stale Council of the Rumanian Socialist Republic.Comrade Ion Gheorghe Maurer,Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Rumanian Socialist Republic:

On behalf of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Government and the Chinese people, we extend warm greetings to the Communist Party of Rumania, the Rumanian Government and the Rumanian people on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the liberation of Rumania. Twenty-six years ago, the Rumanian people, under the leadership of the Rumanian Communist Party, staged the glorious "August 23" armed uprising, overthrew the reactionary rule of Ion Antonescu and made their contribution to the anti-fascist struggle. Since the liberation, the industrious and heroic Rumanian people have achieved tremendous successes in the cause of building their motherland by persistently maintaining independence, keeping the initiative in their own hands and relying on their own efforts. Defying brute force, the Rumanian people have resolutely opposed foreign control, intervention and threat of aggression and bravely defended their national independence and state sovereignty. Not long ago, Rumania suffered from unprecedentedly serious floods. The people of all nationalities in Rumania, united as one, have carried out a stubborn struggle, overcome numerous difficulties and achieved major victories in fighting the floods and in the work of rehabilitation. The Chinese people rejoice very much at the victories scored by the fraternal Rumanian people in their cause of building and defending their motherland and wholeheartedly wish the Rumanian people new and greater successes in the future. In their protracted revolutionary struggles, the peoples of China and Rumania have always sympathized with and supported each other and have established a profound friendship on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism. We are glad to see that over the recent years the relations of friendship and co-operation between our two Parties and two countries are being steadily strengthened and developed. The Chinese people will, as always, resolutely support the just struggle of the Rumanian people. Long live the unbreakable friendship between the Chinese and Rumanian peoples!Mao TsetungChairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of ChinaLin PiaoVice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of ChinaChou En-laiPremier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China